Bugada & Cargnel

Gianni Motti

Police
2004

Police (2004) is the video recording of a concert by a band made up of policemen performed at the Geneva train station as part of a campaign targeting the improvement of the police's image. The police were playing in the same place where they usually chase away 'musician-beggars'. Their original interpretation of pop music standards constrasts strangely with their uniforms.

Gianni Motti

Shock and Awe
2003

Shock and Awe (2003) is the recording of an accidental live broadcast when George W. BUSH was about to announce the beginning of war live from the White House on TV stations worldwide. A European 24-hour news channel aired what was not supposed to be seen, the moments preceding the speech: four minutes in which the President of the United States was facing the camera, getting combed and prepared, practicing various solemn facial expressions followed by grinning and grimacing at people off camera. The nonchalance of his attitude deeply contrasts with the gravity of the time and the announcement he is about to make; the eye of the camera therefore becomes an objective witness of reality.